From the CORGIS Dataset Project
By Austin Cory Bart acbart@vt.edu
Version 2.0.0, created 4/13/2017
Tags: video games, games, publishers, console, gaming
This dataset requires special permission to use.
Originally collected by Dr. Joe Cox, this dataset has information about the sales and playtime of over a thousand video games released between 2004 and 2010. The playtime information was collected from crowd-sourced data on “How Long to Beat”.
Some more information can be found here.
<Cox, Joe. “What makes a blockbuster video game? An empirical analysis of US sales data.” Managerial and Decision Economics 35.3 (2014): 189-198.>
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Key | List of... | Comment | Example Value |
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Title | String | The full title of this game. | "Super Mario 64 DS" |
Features.Handheld? | Boolean | Whether this is a hand-held game. | True |
Features.Max Players | Integer | The maximum number of players that can play this game. | 1 |
Features.Multiplatform? | Boolean | Whether this game is available on multiple platforms. | True |
Features.Online? | Boolean | Whether this game supports online play. | True |
Metadata.Genres | String | The list of genres that this game belongs to. | "Action" |
Metadata.Licensed? | Boolean | Whether this game was based off a previously licensed entity. | True |
Metadata.Publishers | String | The list of publishers who created this game | "Nintendo" |
Metadata.Sequel? | Boolean | Whether this game is a sequel to another game. | True |
Metrics.Review Score | Integer | a typical review score for this game, out of 100. | 85 |
Metrics.Sales | Float | The total sales made on this game, measured in millions of dollars. | 4.69 |
Metrics.Used Price | Float | A typical "used" price for this game (i.e. previously returned and sold), measured in dollars. It is unclear where this number originally came from. | 24.95 |
Release.Console | String | The name of the console that this particular game was released for. Note that the dataset contains multiple copies of the same game, released for different consoles. | "Nintendo DS" |
Release.Rating | String | The ESRB rating for this game, either E (for Everyone), T (for Teen), or M (for Mature). | "E" |
Release.Re-release? | Boolean | Whether this game is a re-release of an earlier one. | True |
Release.Year | Integer | The year that this game was released. | 2004 |
Length.All PlayStyles.Average | Float | The mean time that players reported completing the game in any way, in hours. This is the average over all the other categories. | 22.716666666666665 |
Length.All PlayStyles.Leisure | Float | The slowest time that players reported completing the game in any way, in hours. This is the minimum over all the other categories. | 31.9 |
Length.All PlayStyles.Median | Float | The median time that players reported completing the game in any way, in hours. This is the median over all the other categories. | 24.483333333333334 |
Length.All PlayStyles.Polled | Integer | The number of players that reported completing the game in any way. This is the count over all the other categories. | 57 |
Length.All PlayStyles.Rushed | Float | The fastest time that players reported completing the game in any way, in hours. This is the maximum over all the other categories. | 14.3 |
Length.Completionists.Average | Float | The mean time that players reported completing everything in the game, in hours. | 29.766666666666666 |
Length.Completionists.Leisure | Float | The slowest time that players reported completing everything in the game, in hours. | 35.03333333333333 |
Length.Completionists.Median | Float | The median time that players reported completing everything in the game, in hours. | 30.0 |
Length.Completionists.Polled | Integer | The number of players that reported completing everything in the game. | 20 |
Length.Completionists.Rushed | Float | The fastest time that players reported completing everything in the game, in hours. | 22.016666666666666 |
Length.Main + Extras.Average | Float | The mean time that players reported completing the main game and major extra parts of the game, in hours. | 24.916666666666668 |
Length.Main + Extras.Leisure | Float | The slowest time that players reported completing the main game and major extra parts of the game, in hours. | 29.966666666666665 |
Length.Main + Extras.Median | Float | The median time that players reported completing the main game and major extra parts of the game, in hours. | 25.0 |
Length.Main + Extras.Polled | Integer | The number of players that reported completing the main game and major extra parts of the game. | 16 |
Length.Main + Extras.Rushed | Float | The fastest time that players reported completing the main game and major extra parts of the game, in hours. | 18.333333333333332 |
Length.Main Story.Average | Float | The mean time that players reported completing the main game storyline, in hours. | 14.333333333333334 |
Length.Main Story.Leisure | Float | The slowest time that players reported completing the main game storyline, in hours. | 18.316666666666666 |
Length.Main Story.Median | Float | The median time that players reported completing the main game storyline, in hours. | 14.5 |
Length.Main Story.Polled | Integer | The number of players that reported completing the main game storyline. | 21 |
Length.Main Story.Rushed | Float | The fastest time that players reported completing the main game storyline, in hours. | 9.7 |